Comments on: You Are Not Alone: Sexual Assault at MIT https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/04/21/you-are-not-alone-sexual-assault-at-mit/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:06:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: Anna Nowogrodzki https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/04/21/you-are-not-alone-sexual-assault-at-mit/#comment-107984 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:06:07 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=6946#comment-107984 It’s so, so important to talk about this. Kudos. I think I’d recommend thinking about making sure people don’t feel blamed if they decide not to speak up. I agree that speaking up is super important, but there are totally legitimate reasons not to, and there are a host of terrible examples of people being treated awfully when they do speak up, so if people don’t want to for their safety, I don’t blame them.

]]> By: Michael Greshko https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/04/21/you-are-not-alone-sexual-assault-at-mit/#comment-107963 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:52:06 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=6946#comment-107963 Great information, and a timely, important infographic. Two things.
One, you do a great job of guiding your audience through the fact that they’re not alone. In fact, you do a good job overall being that supportive voice. I find it missing in the portion where you quote the survey:

One-third of MIT students surveyed said that harassment can happen “because men get carried away.”

What’s your response to that? How should your reader process this quote? What’s more, I’d like you to define harassment for your reader, explain that the “men carried away” argument doesn’t hold water, outline its negative impacts, and then pivot back to the idea that saying something is for the best.

Finally, I would like you to include direct contact information for the resources you mention.

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